That will help to clear the thing up.

We will try to do right, and trust to be kept from doing wrong." Donal left her to go to his room, but had not reached the top of the stair when he saw clearly that he must speak to lord Forgue at once: he turned and went down to a room that was called his.
When he reached it, only Davie was there, turning over the leaves of a folio worn by fingers that had been dust for centuries.

He said Percy went out, and would not let him go with him.
Knowing mistress Brookes was looking after Eppy, Donal put off seeking farther for Forgue till the morrow..